Nîmes, Albarello in polychrome enamelled earthenware

Curved shaped albarello embellished with gadroons in light relief at mid-section and at the base. Decoration of a phylactery bearing the inscription « DIAPHENICON : » (for Diaphénic) in blue camaïeu. Set against a white ground embellished with blue leaves and decorated by three green multi-lobed reserves with blue ground and yellow acanthus leaves. Wave of blue fillets and yellow stylized leaves at mid-section and along base. Yellow and blue fillets along rims.

16th century
Workshop of Antoine Syjalon

Condition report : Crack on neck, minor crack at base. Chips

Bibliography : Similar model at the apothecary at the Hotel Dieu in Carpentras